6th Annual Conference. June 04, 2014. San Francisco

Egenera Helps Emory Healthcare Guarantee Reliability and Automation of its Growing VDI

Session Details

Date: June 18th 2013
Time: 14:30
Location: Nevada Room

Session Abstract

To support its staff’s need for online access anytime, Emory, the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Georgia, need to virtualize its desktops to enable its staff to be mobile while offering guaranteed access to critical systems for patient care. The centralization and virtualization of the desktop required Emory’s datacenter IT infrastructure to be extremely reliable and resilient yet manageable, flexible and agile. By partnering with Egenera, using their PAN Manager software, and Fujitsu, they were able to manage up to 25,000 virtual desktops, with 4,000-5,000 concurrent yet constantly rotating users – all with a single system administrator.

Speaker

John Humphreys, VP of Marketing, Egenera
John Humphreys brings more than a decade of technology experience to his role as VP, Marketing and has global responsibility for brand awareness, lead generation, sales enablement, product marketing, and channel development. Prior to joining Egenera, Humphreys was senior director, Data Center and Cloud Marketing at Citrix Systems. There he drove efforts around virtualization and cloud and had responsibility for developing marketing strategy, defining packaging and pricing, leading program execution, driving customer engagements and pre-sales activity, and acting as a primary spokesperson. Prior to Citrix, Humphreys founded and was vice president of the virtualization practice at IDC, a global information technology research firm. Humphreys began his career as an exploration and production geologist after earning a Bachelor of Arts at Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Science Degree at the University of Wyoming.

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